Bolt \Bolt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bolting.]

1. To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.

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Bolt \Bolt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bolting.]

[OE. bolten, boulten, OF. buleter, F. bluter, fr. Ll. buletare, buratare, cf. F. bure coarse woolen stuff; fr. L. burrus red. See Borrel, and cf. Bultel.]

1. To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.

He now had bolted all the flour. --Spenser.

Ill schooled in bolted language. --Shak.

2. To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.

Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things. --L'Estrange.

3. (Law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. --Jacob.

To bolt to the bran, to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important. --Chaucer.

This bolts the matter fairly to the bran. --Harte.

The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran. --Burke.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Bolting \Bolt"ing\, n. A darting away; a starting off or aside.

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Bolting \Bolt"ing\, n.

1. A sifting, as of flour or meal.

2. (Law) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. [Obs.]

Bolting cloth, wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; -- used by millers for sifting flour. --McElrath.

Bolting hutch, a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)